The arcist bench in the Chamber of Deputies He admitted that the obsession to approve lithium contracts It was aimed to ‘protect’ natural resources. However, unable to achieve their approval, they left the next sessions to the approval of any law to the nominal vote.
“NThe only interest was that our strategic products, our natural resources do not have to be givensold, by anyone but rather industrialized, worked in the country, or always taking care of the issue of sovereignty, beyond that we have no interest and therefore if it is rejected or approved, it will be the exclusive decision of the Legislative Assembly and in this case of the Chamber of Deputies, ”said the first vice president of this instance, Deysi Choque.
Arcism tried to impose the treatment and approval of the lithium exploitation contract With the Chinese company, Hong Kong CBC Investment Limited, at the beginning of July and had to suspend the treatment against the scandal that the opposition deputies unleashed.
It was not the only case, A week later was the Plural Economy Commission that put the other exploitation contract of the mineral on the agenda, this time with the Russian company, Uranium One Group, and were the deputies of that region, in addition to Potosin civic that prevented their treatment.
A week ago it was done A forum in Potosí with the presence of some candidates for the presidency of the country since even Potosí only Jorge Tuto Quiroga, Rodrigo Paz Pereira and Pavel Aracena arrived. The three candidates signed a commitment not to allow the approval of lithium exploitation contracts, without having a law of lithium, previously.
Interestingly, businessman Samuel Doria Medina did not arrive at this eventwho is accused of negotiating lithium with Marcelo Claure. Potosin deputies are in ‘state of emergency’ to prevent the treatment of the contract with the Uranium One Group.
The deputy shock said that the sessions that are convened will have as its main novelty the approval by nominal vote, that means that Each deputy will be able to cast their vote openly and justifying their decision. The deputies of other stores, on the contrary, believe that there will be nothing until after the elections, because there is less than two weeks left for that process.
